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This is where the DA got its facts - Alex Molteno

Party's social media manager replies to Africa Check article questioning the accuracy of its Tweets

Response to Africa Check

11 February 2014

Your article on the sources of information for #DAdelivers tweets refers (see Ray Joseph's piece "Where does the DA get its facts?" here).

The DA twitter account is not managed from the Premier's Office of the Western Cape, since to do so would be a conflation of party and state.

The DA's social media team at National Head Office has been running the #DAdelivers campaign on twitter for around a year now. Its aim is to inform people of the DA's delivery record in the places where we govern.

The questions raised by Africa Check could have been answered swiftly if they had been directed to the DA in the first place. It is not clear why we never received any such query prior to reading the article on Africa Check.

Below is a list of #DAdelivers tweets queried by Africa Check with references to the source of each one.

We strive for accuracy at all times because we believe that accuracy is crucial for our credibility. If Africa Check finds that any of these statistics are inaccurate, we will gladly rectify them.